you're still infiltrating a security device even if the people who put up the walls or locks did so illegitimately. that's a real weird revisionist prescriptivism you've got there.
the specificity you're demanding for "infiltrate" to apply is prescriptivist, and it's revision because it does not reflect common usage in american or commonwealth.
anyway, you're still infiltrating a security device something even if the people who put up the walls or locks fortified border did so illegitimately.
The comrade was being slightly pedantic in objecting to the use of the word infiltrate to make a point, but you are just being an annoying debate nerd for no reason. What do you think you are achieving with this?
you're still infiltrating a security device even if the people who put up the walls or locks did so illegitimately. that's a real weird revisionist prescriptivism you've got there.
Clearly NPR was not talking about infiltrating a wall or lock, but about infiltrating Israel.
Not sure what you mean by that.
the specificity you're demanding for "infiltrate" to apply is prescriptivist, and it's revision because it does not reflect common usage in american or commonwealth.
anyway, you're still infiltrating
a security devicesomething even if the people who put up thewalls or locksfortified border did so illegitimately.The comrade was being slightly pedantic in objecting to the use of the word infiltrate to make a point, but you are just being an annoying debate nerd for no reason. What do you think you are achieving with this?
i disagree with the pedantry, and i think it's not debate to rephrase what i said when asked for clarification